Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-10-13
pFYLlTTLE's FRIEND.

f>,sriHee. and Wife's Noble Heroism
nortn-bound train stopped for a
/, half minute at Wyndham, a small
II bous,. and set in thick oak and
I,r1t woods, and one passenger swung
/, down TO the platform.
f. vehicles were waiting; the colored
imam of one turned his bays home
nbad not suited the bays Master
ME- out from the city by that train,
o,bsr carriage, light pheton, held
pretty woman, who managed the
!. With saucy carelessness which was
! justified by the sedate appearance
little horse. The one passenger
Evidently her property.
H. it very hotin town to-day, Frank Y
I va, a leading question, by which
/ Psulittle's pretty driver hoped to
ont Why her husband looked so pale
opt suggesting to him that she no
! bis pallor.
September heats are alwaes op.
&.ys in town. answered the gentle
! YEARLY, find / haven't felt very
to-day. But come, little woman
! ba, shadow from thy brow, and lets
H. take long drive down the river
enc we're various social and domestic
In that made this drive untimely
&rs. Penlit.le; but such was the fash
HI her vifehood that the bottom
have dropped out of her affairs be
he would have refused 20 take her
band pleasure. She turned hel
head % the river.
be drive was not happy one to her
va. distinctly conscious that some
bad troubled her gay, pleasure-loV
l.bsnd, and he, on his part, knew
is forced gaiety was not deceiving
He knew this SO well that he gave
Effort after a while, and let her dc
baking,
Frank Penlittle had been a favor
a ueu and women ever since ht
y0fu skirts aud T. j., curls. 1t Is no
90 70 say that he was handsome; h,
hat charm of face and voice anC
n-r which is only found in one wo
among a thousand; it is safe to sa!
no one man in tsn times that mum
osesses it, and then, alas, he is no
70 be d very manly fellow. Mari,
nd lad fallen desperately in low
Mr. Peniitle, had turned coldl,
from twenty better men, and mar
him. ANA had spent five years of viv
Ppue's, mixed with vague restless
ls" which het husbands light ma
DID not satisfy.
len iae evening mail came in, Mrs
tle was sitting on the vine shaded
leo waiting for her husband, wht
unusually dllatOry about making hi
oae opened the four O'Clock pa
rld was stunned by the announce
oi its latest column:
sounding Defalcation! Mr.. Now
sudden disappearance. Lunch
'4 a'' friend! Fifty thousand dol
's followed these cruel capitals
account of some dishonesty in tn
-.' OF The Fifth Street Bank, b,
~'y thousand dollars had beer
0li OF it, moneys and the thief
-' once on Arthur Mowbray b.
sNlittie feltas if some one ha,
Ds' hard blow. Mr.. Mowbra
Fly near neighbour. their life-lon,
qua mad been in the old days he
over His position in the ban
una, -l'4f 70 Mr. Penlittle's. 1t wa
~oSo'ay s carriage that had gon
~ t'y from the station but tw
,''o'e' u was with Mr.. Penlittl
guilty man had iunched half a,
'0.s leaving the city, End Nj
.ae report stated, had stoppe
-.'1'ASs against his friend bv civ
-.--'ee, that within thirty days h
Zoe money. ~ -
lt-' slipped so the floor. and th
'sz was covered with both hand.
~... husbands step at the doc
Win burst of tears. NJ
A.a even more agitated tina